NASA will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the launch of Skylab, America’s first space station, on Tuesday (May 14), but you might be surprised where this icon of U.S. human spaceflight ended up. After hosting rotating astronaut crews from 1973-1974, theSkylab space stationeventually fell back to Earth in pieces that landed in Australia Continue reading
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Mercury Space Observatory (1964)
Friendship 7 launch. Image: NASA Continue reading